Or should they take up the last cudgel and put their own majoritarian principles aside?
When the paper's editor is murdered by Mussolini's secret police, our hero reluctantly takes up the editorial cudgel.
The guilty plea cudgel might then be used all the more aggressively within the United States itself.
That has become difficult in a chilly geopolitical climate, where Russian President Vladimir Putin uses energy as a strategic cudgel.
He picked up the legal cudgel just before the statute of limitations ran out, and sued Campos' doctors and St.
The federal statute also provided for stiffer sentences than wire fraud he said, providing a heavy cudgel in plea-bargain negotiations.
On the I-nternet, "openness" may be nothing more than a verbal cudgel wielded by the public relations groups in big corporations.
They think the American people will believe their use of the debt ceiling as a cudgel was principled and perhaps even courageous.
For years it has used the Wright amendment as a cudgel to prevent competitors from moving in on its Dallas-Fort Worth gold mine.
For years it has used the 1979 law as a cudgel to prevent competitors from moving in on its Dallas-Fort Worth gold mine.
It is a cudgel used to shame women, terrorize women, to perpetuate a culture where women can be treated like objects and rapists like heroes.
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There was much conjecture on Friday that Jackson's tough-minded ruling could be the cudgel the parties need to get them back to the negotiating table.
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Those rate hikes may be getting most of the attention, but the real cudgel would be higher taxes on capital gains and dividends going to high-earners.
Second, he painted Dukakis -- whom he (accurately) called "a card-carrying member of the ACLU" -- as soft on crime, using as his cudgel Dukakis' support for a prisoner-furlough program.
If Yangon grants Aris his dying wish, while insisting that the visit not be used for politicking, that would deny its opponents one cudgel to throw at its battered image.
But as the energized boycott movement and the Brighton court's obscene ruling and similar actions throughout the world show, Israel must itself take up the law as a cudgel to beat its foes.
In a preliminary report on the antitrust trial against the software giant, Jackson determined that Microsoft used the dominance of its Windows operating system as a cudgel against competitors, stifling innovation and limiting consumer choice.
The budget cuts, known in Washington DC as the sequester, were devised in 2011 as an intentionally painful cudgel to encourage Democrats and Republicans in Congress to strike a deal to reduce the US budget deficit.
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After the Rasul decision, the PR momentum picked up speed and the Supreme Court became, in Mr. Levick's words, their "main weapon, " a "cudgel" that forced more attention in what he calls the traditional "liberal" press.
It strains credulity to assume that China, Russia, Iran, and other non-democratic actors will not selectively apply (at best) such rules to themselves while using them as a cudgel with which to bash their rivals and score political points.
Spitzer resigned his Governorship in disgrace, but none of the heads of the big banks, who defrauded the public of billions, has so much as set foot in a courtroom, and no one has taken up the cudgel since Spitzer dropped it.
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